RUSSIAN DEMANDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4

RUSSIAN DEMANDS

FOR SECOND EUROPEAN FRONT. INTENSE FEELING REPORTED. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 24. Mr Wendell Willkie will return to the United States with a story of growing Russian disappointment and dissatisfaction over the failure of Britain and America to establish a second front, says an Associated Press of America Moscow correspondent. Mr Willkie talked both with very high officials and very humble workers. All expressed appreciation of Britain and America, but it is apparent that only a second front will satisfy Russia. Without it she will feel terribly let down. Mr Willkie said nothing, after seeing M. Stalin, to allay an impression that he also found disappointment there. More outright criticism of Britain and America has been heard in Moscow. Mr Willkie and his companions confess that they were surprised to discover the depth of feeling everywhere. The Russians now openly tell British and Americans in Moscow that they are shouldering the whole burden of the war. The correspondent adds: “It may be a very cold winter in Moscow, and I do not mean that the weather only will be frigid.”